The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-17

We quote the following from the let
Ter of staff correspondent on the adj
.orial page of the Florida Herald:
1.-THE Bloxham-Perry fight grows
As the time draws near the adherents /
Of both candidates buttOnhole each wa
vering legislator and pour into his ear
the virtues of their particular man and |
the weakness of the opposing candi- |
date. The campaign has been conduct |
ell so far with decorum, but evidences |
are now that things will not move along |
as smoothly.
To Justify this assertion will cite this |
fact: The friends of Perry have been
CIRCULATING A PAMPHLET,
which purports to be the report of the
committee (Messrs Daniel, Bradford and
Davidson) who were sent down by Gov
ernor Perry to investigate the Okeecho-
bee drainage business. This pamphlet
has been issued by The PALATKA DAILY
NEWS, which is a warm Perry supporter
and the issuing of the pamphlet Is a de-
termined effort to injure BlOxham and
throughout the report certain passages
are put into italics so as to better I'M
press the reader of 1.-The big steal, as
Bloxhams enemies call 1T.
This pamphlet will knock Bloxhams
caucus into a cooked hat, remarked
warm Perry Senator to a crowd OF
Bloxham men this morning. 1t Is IRE
futable and you fellows can only plead
the baby act and say you did not know
it was a swindle.
Misrepresentation are made IN this
extract, and we ask only that the Herdh
give THE PALATKA NEWS the simplest
Justice The pamphlet is said to ''pur-
port" to be the report of the State Com
missioners. IL contains that report fuH
and correct with the addition of head
notes by way of index, and italics are
used to emphasize important passages.
There was a demand for the full text of
the report, which we could not print in
this paper for lack of space; therefore
the pamphlet was issued and number
of copies sent to Tallahassee for the
members of the Legislature when the
drainage investigation should be taken
up. That Governor Perry knew Of its
publication or any of his friends outside
the office of THE PALATKA NEWS is
| entirely untrue.
That it was not published for ''pOliti-
cal effect" ON the Senatorial contest is
| proved by the fact that the copies in
| tended for the use of members of the
Legislature have long been in Tallahas-
see in the hands of our agents, but We're
not used until a report was started last
Friday which reflected on the character
| of the publication.
The editorial bound with the report
was published in THE PALATKA News
on March 4th, last, to give information
ON matter of great public interest to
the Florida Herald, which had said its
information is too scant and its inves-
tigatons too crude" tn permit of present
comment. For the facts stated in that
article we are indebted to public records
easily accessible to the Herald as well as
Ourselves-if the position assumed could
he refuted surely the Herald, as Blox-
hams advocate, should have imprOred
its Information and ripened its iaresti-
CATION long ago.
1t is claimed that the pamphlet was
intended to njure Bloxham." For thi.
we care nothing; we believe our state
or any other man we fulfilled our duty
to ourselves and the people-fdcts injur,
no innocent man. If these are not fact
let the refutation come as soon as posi-
BILE. We do not indulge a depraved tast'
for anonymously" 'Perry's friends
attack no mans private character. an,
Le.r is not among them.
| We send John T. Graves. editor of tn,
Florida Herald, copies of the pamphle
by this mail-if one word therein b.
proved untrue we shall hasten to- maxi
every reparation possible. We ask o
our esteemed contemporary justice an,
nothing more. We do not stab will
dark insinuations, and what we ga,
"'purpOrts" to mean only the plain Eng
lish in it's literal sense. The title pag
and the dedication Ito the Democrat,
party of Florida" bear the impress of TIL
PALATKA NEws-we shrink from N,
esponsibility-wea alone are responsible
we intended To aid the cause of right an,
uphold the interests of the people and VI
are proud of our UOrk. We spoke afte
n careful study of all the evidence thel
obtainable-no one except ourselves i
responsible for our conclusions. Ii MIR
Duval or any other man has other evi
dence in the case to offer, that also shall
be carefully studied and the conclusion
likewise given frankly to the public
The baby act" has been pleaded i'm ex
cuse by Bloxham's friends and that ais
is a fact which can not be denied.
We believe the statement which bear
the names of j. j. Daniel and two Othe
gentlemen of equally high repute is tru
we know they made careful and full
investigation-we know that the Stat
Drainage Engineer" could not possibl,
examine a. fully and report as intelli
gently on the Improvement of two mill
ion acres in one month. and we do no
believe our facts as stated can be- re-
butted or our conclusions gainsaid.
Mr.. Duval can show that great good
has been done by the drainage company
or that it has kept it's contract with TIN
State no one will rejoice more than our
selves.
The House Bill No. 50, offered by Mr.
Johns, of Bradford, provides for the ap
pointment of three accountants or ex
perts for each county, by the Governor
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